Mock Genre Essay #3
Facebook post: Family Gathering
Had a great time at the welcome home party for my uncle Billy who just returned back from California for the first time since he left. It was only 6 months but for a family that’s as close as mine it an extremely long time. It was a great welcome home party and everyone had a good time not just my uncle.
Reflection
The Facebook genre is very casual and informal. It can cover almost anything but mainly is focused on things that happen over the course of your day. Anyone that has or decides to create a Facebook account is able to participate in these posts. Facebook is not limited to any group and all people write on Facebook for their friends to read. The purpose of this genre is to
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All kinds of people use twitter as a means of communication and their tweets can be seen by their followers or people who view their profile. This genres purpose is to inform people about events in a quick and informal way. Some rhetorical device that are in this form of writing are hashtags, pictures and tags. The danger that comes with writing in this genre is that twitter lacks privacy and anyone can see what is said.
Memo to Officer Pearson
From: David Dempsey
To: Officer Pearson
Re: Speeding ticket
Date: 11-4-15
Dear Officer Pearson.
I hope you are able to enjoy this lovely weather. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity. It is not often that officers give people the chance to write back in request to waive a ticket, and for that it is greatly appreciated
Busy at work traffic not careful. Last Tuesday I was driving down Main Street and I was pulled over and received a ticket. The officer reported that I was going fifty miles per hour in a forty mile per hour speed limit.. So my day started at 6:00am when I got up to prepare and get ready for my 8:00am, I jumped in the car and was on my way to class. The traffic every day is typically bad but this day was a lot different, the traffic I experienced was like nothing I have seen in the past and I ended up getting off the highway much later than I anticipated. In a rush and caught up in the shortage of time that I had I was traveling a few miles faster than I should have
I was pulled over by a police officer because I was going faster than I was supposed to in that designated area. The zone was a sixty-five mile per hour zone and I was do eighty. I have agreed to the terms that I was found guilty of this and now come to you the reader explaining why it may be dangerous to be speeding in certain areas and ultimately everywhere. During this experience I have learned that there are many consequences for not driving safe, because there is never a good reason to speed. I have learned that it is extremely dangerous to speed and that there will be consequences, even if they are minor like, obtaining a ticket, and occasionally they are major, like killing running into someone else. It does not matter what happens after, you should not be speeding ever because there is never a good
Social media, like Facebook and Twitter seems to be growing popular worldwide in the last few years. Have you found yourself or someone else in an awkward situation and instantly pull out your phone to scrawl through Facebook or Twitter just to keep from talking to someone in the elevator or doctor’s office? Is social media like Facebook and Twitter making us lonely human beings? One man, Stephen Marche, wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely,” published in May of 2012 issue in The Atlantic thinks that social media might play a role in it alongside with other things.
Twitter is one of the most popular social media outlets in the world, having the ability to connect people from all over the world. Though the platform may have its perks, problems such as being limited to using very few characters, being fooled by fraudulent users, and being a detriment to your future career are all risks that one must choose to take. While Twitter may offers many benefits, one must realize all of the consequences that they may be faced with when joining the social media
One of the advantages of twitter is a very simple and educational social network. This allows to be aware of everything that interests you, such as communities, celebrities, or just people who are not famous, but they write very interesting things. Although the twitter is a social network where you
“Our community now has more than 1.55 billion people, including more than 1 billion people active every day,” says Mark Zukerburg, the creator of Facebook, on his own Facebook page last year. As one of the most popular social media sites in the world, Facebook has been adopted by an increasing amount of people over the past decade. The number of users on Facebook indicates how Facebook plays an important role of socializing and communicating in modern age life. Since Facebook allows users to see their friends’ updates and access Facebook on a mobile device, it has a tremendous impact on its users in several aspects. People may ask, “how does Facebook impact its users?” Some people suggest that Facebook creates negative consequences, such as distracting students in class. However, do all users experience these negative consequences? Sociologist Everett M. Rogers argues that the consequences of innovations, whether they are anticipated or not, can be perceived as positive or negative. Since Facebook does not differ from user to user, rather that it is the users that are different from one another, Facebook’s consequences vary from individuals. Even though some criticize how Facebook influences people negatively, depending on how the individual uses it, Facebook can positively impact users through sparking creativity, providing convenience, and creating change.
Facebook and Twitter have become one of the biggest social media use by Americans. Through Facebook people can share their life experience. In reality life experiences are lost through Facebook because the person posting is not living the experience with his or her friends. Twitter is use to post little messages called tweets that can only be up to 140 letters. Tweets express how someone feels or what they are doing. Twitter
The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever.
Twitter has a wide variety of young users who are often eager many would say over-eager to share information about their personal lives. And as is the case with all social media, Twitter is operating in a 'wild, wild west' of a lack of legal restrictions. Despite concerns over alienating users, the desire to make what is now a relatively old and established site more profitable (perhaps in answer to the shaky performance of Facebook's public offering) has apparently won out. Recently, "in a move that has sparked privacy concerns among social media users,
Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and Hollywood horror movie star would have been 86 in this year, but nobody exactly knows how old she was at the time of her death! According to the coroner’s report, she was died for a long time ago before her neighbor discovered her death. Her neighbor, Susan Savage noticed cobwebs in her windows and yellowing pile of letters in her mailbox. She reached through a broken window to unlock the door and she reached upstairs, she found Vickers’s mummified boy near a heater that was running at that time. Near the body, Vickers’s computer was also running. The Los Angeles Times posted a story, which quickly went viral throughout the country. Within two weeks, Vickers’s lonesome death was already the subject to thousands of Facebook posts and tweets. She had long been a horror-movie icon, now she was an icon of a different kind of horror, our growing fear of loneliness. Certainly she received much more attention after her death than she did in the end years of her life. With no children, no religious group, and no immediate social circle of any kind, she had begun to look elsewhere for companionship. Vickers had made calls not to friends or family but to distant fans whom she found through fan conventions and Internet sites. Though her web of connections had grown broader but it was shallower, as has happened for many of us (Marche S. 2012). Vickers’s death arises a question to all- does social media
Many believe that the privacy settings of their electronic private diaries keep them safe from the people they don’t want reading about them. Just like Winston in 1984, he sneaks a diary around containing his private thoughts-- even though it could get him killed (Orwell). Little do many know though is that they are literally typing into a telescreen. Telescreens were used in 1984 to watch and view people of society. Big Brother did this to make sure no one was thinking or doing things that were against the ideas of their perfect society (Orwell). Anything that people post on Twitter may appear to be
I’m on my way to Sociology class one day this semester, my Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm session with Gloria Clay. I find myself in a bit of a rush this afternoon. Slept in late, had a lot of errands to run, lost track of time. At least I’m grateful that the weather is nice and the traffic is sparse today, but this doesn’t eliminate the fact that I’m not going to be on time for class. I am trying to stay relaxed in this situation but little do you know, I really hate running late for everything. It’s about time my lead foot kicks in-- I find myself exceeding the speed limit. I actually get halfway to school when I notice the sporadic movement of blue and red lights in my rear view mirror. So here I am, hanging out in the shoulder of I-95,
We had a lot of laughs and talked a lot. It was awesome since my big sister, Catherine, who lives in New Orleans since she’s in her third year of dental school, came down with us for a little, and so I got to talk to her again and do stuff with her.
Then, we finally, arrived at Windsor,Colorado and for the first time ever in my whole life I was actually excited to see my cousins and I actually had a talk with them about the experience something i have never done before so all and all I say it was a pretty good
Twitter is a service for people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. It's an online social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read short 140 character text messages, called "tweets". Twitter is a social website where people are allowed to make posts about different things. Twitter has 645,750,000 registered users as of January 1, 2014. Twitter is now stepping up to global television. Micro blogging is the posting of very short entries or updates on a blog or social networking site, typically via a cellular phone. Twitter allows its users to keep their friends and family informed of their current status. Twitter first began in 2008 as a small project; but now
Social media has a big impact on family relationships. It is a media that allows the individuals to exchange information. Social media is breaking up families relationships and it is a huge problem in demand of communicating. The media had made lots of bad influence on families, especially the addiction of how it has been used by humans. Families are changing the way they relate to each other. There is no privacy in a social world. According to (JR) “The more social media we have, the more we think were connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other". I 'm therefore against social media and its extraordinary use. That is why there are lots of advantages and disadvantages in a social habitant. It is important to change how families and individuals see social media as a hobby rather than as a waste of time.